Check the sample imaging databases at
http://accdevel.tripod.com. They
illustrate three approaches to handling images in Access, and the download
includes an article discussing considerations in choosing an approach. Two
of the approaches do not use OLE Objects and, thus, avoid the database
bloat, and some other problems, associated with images in OLE Objects.
If you are printing the images in reports, to avoid memory leakage, you
should also see MVP Stephen Lebans'
http://www.lebans.com/printfailures.htm.
PrintFailure.zip is an Access97 MDB containing a report that fails during
the Access formatting process prior to being spooled to the Printer Driver.
This MDB also contains code showing how to convert the contents of the Image
control to a Bitmap file prior to printing. This helps alleviate the "Out of
Memory" error that can popup when printing image intensive reports.
(Note: this assumes you're not using Access 2007. Images are handled much
better in Access 2007)
